Re: Ann Eller a Phenomenal Lady & J. Allen Hynek

From: Brad Sparks <RB47x.nul>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:21:42 EST
Archived: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:13:28 -0500
Subject: Re: Ann Eller a Phenomenal Lady & J. Allen Hynek
>From: Jerome Clark <jkclark.nul>>To: <ufoupdates.nul>>Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:32:16 -0600>Subject: Re: Ann Eller a Phenomenal Lady>>From: Robert Salas <rsalas.nul>>>To: <ufoupdates.nul>>>Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:56:50 -0800>>Subject: Re: Ann Eller a Phenomenal Lady>>>Many prominent people crossed paths with Dr. Hynek, but few came>>>to know him as well as Ann Eller. You see, Ann was Dr. Hynek's>>>personal secretary. She organized his office and was responsible>>>for filing away all the classified UFO stories reviewed and>>>evaluated for the United States Air Force, including many more>>>accounts that flowed in after Dr. Hynek retired from his post as>>>Scientific Advisor.
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>I also know that Allen was deeply troubled by James McDonald's>bluntly stated criticisms of his slowness to act on the UFO>evidence he was seeing as scientific advisor to Blue Book. In>conversation Allen would come back to McDonald's complaints as>he sought to defend himself long after McDonald himself was>gone.
This whole schism between Hynek and McDonald was crafted by ex-
AAF officer Charles B. Moore. Moore lied to McDonald in a
meeting on April 28, 1966, claiming that Hynek wanted to
confront the AF over its UFO policies.
McDonald did not know this was a lie, assumed it was true, and
went to see Hynek on June 8, 1966, after reviewing the Blue Book
files.
Based on the false info from C B Moore, McDonald assumed Hynek
would join forces with him to challenge the AF's scientifically
incompetent Project Blue Book operation.
When Hynek obviously did not know what McDonald was talking
about as to confronting the AF, McDonald had the famous
table-pounding blowup at Hynek, as recounted by Vallee who was
there.
Later, McDonald confronted C B Moore about his false info on
Hynek and McDonald recorded that Moore admitted he had "not been
entirely honest."
Read up on this in Ann Druffel's bio of McDonald and the
supporting documents, most importantly McDonald's July 1970
draft of a letter to Hynek attempting to mend fences. Apparently
the letter was never sent though typed up for dispatch to Hynek.
Maybe Ann Eller can clarify.
Listen to 'Strange Days... Indeed' - The PodCast
See:
http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/sdi/program/subscribers/